Motorola Wins Sales Injunction in Germany Against Windows 7 and Xbox 360

[DannibusX]

Apple forced Adobe to drop Flash in favor of HTML 5 which supports H.264. Google is in the process of acquiring Motorola, owner of those two patents concerning H.264. Apple and Google both big supporters of HTML5.

Why do I have the feeling that Apple and Google are the ultimate villains? They looked like they are competing each other but I view them as secret partners who maintain huge chunks of consumers respectively to ensure that neither of them will be accused of dominance or invoke anti-trust investigations. Apple will let Google have half of the empire as long as its Android kept the competitors in check, fragmented. The perfect crime?

Google is acquiring Motorola Mobility, not Motorola itself. I doubt these patents are involved in the deal.

 

[1freedude]

microsoft isn't the only company using those two patents to get H.264 to function. there must be other companies involved?

But Microsoft didn't pay license fees.